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lang⋅syne

  [lang-zahyn, -sahyn] Scot.
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–adverb
1. long since; long ago.
–noun
2. time long past.
Also, lang syne.

Origin:
1490–1500; lang + syne
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lang·syne also lang syne   (lāng-zīn')   
adv.  Long ago; long since.
n.  Time long past; times past.

[Scots lang syne, from Middle English lang sine : long, lang, long; see long1 + sine, since (contraction of sithen, sithens; see since).]
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